Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the Electoral College parallels the Congress, the bearing of Reapportionment on the Presidential election is intimate. A comparison of the States involved in the Reapportionment and the lists of States now likely for Hoover and for Smith, shows Smith benefited and Hoover deprived in a total of ten votes, or only two less electors than decided Wilson's victory over Hughes...
Strange is the fact that in comparison with the vague and awful charge of "conspiracy to sabotage" the specific charges of sabotage committed are trifling. Major specific charges: turning off a ventilator fan so that several miners suffocated; wrecking turbines by bending the blades; and installing new equipment known to be defective...
...three furnaces, but the latest improvement provides each furnace with its own pulverizer and does away altogether with the problem of distribution. The new pulverizer is attached to the door of any furnace. Like a large coffee mill, it grinds the coal until talcum powder would look coarse in comparison; sprays it into the greedy furnace where it becomes incandescent almost immediately...
...Omaha convention of the National Live Stock and Meat Board. Middle Western farmers, declared Meatpacker White, should discourage "back-to-the-farm" propaganda, should hope for fewer farmers, higher prices. Confounding calamity howlers, he compared yearly incomes of farmers in the Middle West with the national average. His comparison: Nebraska $4,010; South Dakota, $3,356; Iowa, $4,180; Kansas, $3,020; U. S. average...
Varying weather conditions make any comparison of the Harvard and Yale crews impossible but the showing made so far promises one of the closest races in many years. Yale's crew has shown remarkable form in its practices at Gales Ferry so far, and the race will probably resolve itself into a contest for the jump at the start...